Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-08
Sitting BULBS Incendiary Speech Last
Summer at the Custer Monument
Sowed q Crop OF Discomfort
Whic!: :s Vow Bearing
italy Will Join Austria and Germany
Against Russia - Davitt on the
Wrongs Of 1reland-Russia and
Turkey Settle the Bul.
garian Question.

DI|LiNS"s AVA IL OcCOO6f o.
Special to Tho Miner. .l-For some
time marked spirit OF insubordina ton
has been manifest among the Crow Indians
which, though not betrayed by any overt
act OF rebellion, has been apparent in the
ill.concealed murmurings OF dlscontent
With the administration OF General H. s.
williamson, agent. which is largely due to
the visit OF Sitting Bull and 100 Sioux to the
Crows last autumn, who held a war d ,nce
at the monument on the Custer battle
field by permission OF our lenieut Interior
Department. and excited the envy of the
Crows by insidiously contrasting the policy
purs,ed by the Government in treatment
oi tha two nations.
SITTING BULLS rApNrs.
Sitting Bull, at joint council. was heard
10 say: Look at that monument. It
marks the work OF my people. We are re.
spected and feared by the white man be.
cause we killed his great chief and more
than three hundred Of his warriors upon
this spot. We receive one aud one.half
pourds OF beef for ration. You ger one
pound We do not work but ride and visit
frleD0S as we pedbcs Oce yOuI uUUlc lO&
houses and farms. You are the white
mans slaves. He is treating you to labor
only that you may forget the use of your
war.paint, and the battle-songs of your
fathers are stO'en from the lips OF your
children by the senseless chants OF the
schools OF ne black robes [Cathoic priests.1
Ia there 10 blood in the veins in your men?
Rise at once ago inst the bloodless conquest
that is turning your people into slaves.
The red man was made by the Great Spirit
to
FIGHT AND HUNT,
TO be free as the prairie winds. It is the
white mans business to work. He is only
soldier when paid to be-" This visit oc-
Cured at the time the Crows were busy in
harvest and other important farming opera
tons, and the memorable speech was made
bought by the Government for the use OF
the Indians, whom it seeks to civilize
through the agency OF labor. What the ef-
feet was there can be easily imagined, and
the seeds 81 well sown have borne fruit
that might have been expected. Agent
williamson has made judicions use OF the
money appropriated to him. Comfortable
houses have been erected for his charges,
lands broken and well prepared for cultiva-
ton, improved machinery furnished for
their wants, and competent farming ex-
psrts appointed to properly instruct them.
The grea test difficulty met with has been in
bis endeavor to suppress horse stealing.
Maranding bands Of Piegans from Northern
Montana have
MADE REPEATED RAIDS
upon the herds, and they have at various
times sent forth small bands OF young men,
who have sufficiently retaliated upon their
northern foes. One such notable event has
Just occurred. A coming man among them.
the yon chief Thunder and Lightning,
with twenty two followers has made sue
cessfu reprisals upon the Piegap camp. and
returned to the agency when on Friday last,
be, with his brav yes. held II grand rejoicing
and sun dance. Agent Villa mson at once
ordered thei, arrest by the Indian pnlire
This was bitterly resisted, q nd on Saturday,
the Fl at inst ant, the attack was made by
the disaff.cted band upon the agency build
ing. Several shots were fired into them and
q general warIike attitude assumed BY the
followers OF the raidis g chief Agent VIII
Iiams on Immediately pplipd for protection
to Fort Custer and four companies Oi
cavalry we're
DISPATCHED TO HIS RELIEF.
The Indians Withdrawing from the i'm
mediate vicinity OF the building, three OF
the troops we're returned to the post, one
only being ordered into camp to protect
the lives OF the agent and employees. Much
alarm is felt by settlers in the valley, and a
raid may momentarily be expected.
gent eman returned from Fort Custer states
that the Indians are about equally DIVIDED,
the vouiger %. .rtiOn gradually going over
TO the leadership of / hief Thundrr-and-
Lightning. while the older ones remain at
hom" AID counsel obedience TO the author
itv OF the agent. Few arrests have been
effected. but they served only to excite in
subordination, and it is believed resista nee
will be made until the las6. The authori-
ties of Custer County. which a'ijoins the
reservation on the east, have ben applied
to and the sheriff OF that county is no
doubt now upon the way to aid the agent
in securing the thieves.